Casio QV 300 Infrared Light, How to avoid hand movement…, Fluorescent Lighting, • Never open the battery compartment cover, disconnect the, memory, Caution, Distances

Recording Images Operation

Caution	Infrared Light
• Never open the battery compartment cover, disconnect the	Infrared light generated by a flash or other source can create image
AC adaptor from the camera or unplug it from the wall	color problems, such as red areas being recorded as green. Such
socket while the “WAIT” message is on the LCD. Doing so	color problems will show up in the LCD while you are composing the
will not only make storage of the current image impossible, it	image.
can also corrupt other image data already stored in camera
memory.

	Shooting Images Outdoors
How to avoid hand movement…	Strong direct or reflected sunlight can cause recorded images to take
Any hand movement when you press the shutter button can causes	on a greenish tinge. This is due to the characteristics of the camera’s
	charge-coupled device (CCD), and it does not indicate malfunction of
blurring of the recorded image. Note the following points on avoiding
	the camera. One way you can try to minimize this problem is to set
hand movement.
	the aperture to [	●] (F8).
• Make sure there is no excessive movement of the image of the ob-
ject on the LCD.
• Use a tripod whenever possible when recording images in dim light-	Changing the Lens Orientation
ing. The camera automatically adjusts shutter speed in accordance	The lens of the camera	is built	into a	lens body that is designed to
with the brightness of the object whose image is being recorded.
	rotate. This means you can change the angle of the lens without mov-
Shutter speed is quite slow for dimly lit objects, increasing the pos-
	ing the rest of the camera.
sibility of blurring caused by hand movement.
Fluorescent Lighting
Fluorescent lighting actually flickers at a frequency that cannot be
detected by the human eye. When using the camera indoors under
such lighting, you may experience some brightness or color problems
with recorded images. The actual extent of the problems depends on
what cycle of the fluorescent light’s flicker is occurring when the cam-
era’s shutter actually releases. For best results, use a commercially	Rotates up to 90		°	Rotates up to 180	°
available video lights.
	towards the front			towards the back
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				Recording Images	Operation
• Any images recorded while the lens body is rotated so the lens is					NORMAL/MACRO Switch
	pointed from the back of the camera are stored as mirror images of				The NORMAL/MACRO	switch tells the
	the image		that appears in the LCD before the shutter button is
					camera how much distance	there will be
	pressed.
					between the lens and the object whose					MACRO NORMAL
					image you are recording. The following
					table describes the conditions covered by
					each switch setting.
					Switching Between Lenses
					This camera gives you a choice between
				A	telephoto (TELE) and wide-angle (WIDE)					TELE
					lenses. The following shows the optimum
					distances at which you should use each of					WIDE
					these lenses.
A		.......
			LCD when shutter button is			Distances
			pressed (in the Record Mode)
					Lens	Aperture	Normal			Macro
		.......
B							(NORMAL)			(MACRO)
			LCD when image is played	B
			back from camera memory		Wide Angle (WIDE)	F2.6( ○)	0.6m ~	∞		9cm ~ 11cm
					f = 4.9mm		(2' ~ ∞	)		(3.5" ~ 4.3")
						F8 (●)	0.3m ~	∞		7cm ~ 14cm
Important!							(1' ~∞	)		(2.8" ~ 5.5")
•	Do not apply excessive force when rotating the lens body. Doing so				Telephoto (TELE)	F2.6( ○)	3.4m ~	∞		52cm ~ 62cm
	can cause serious damage to the lens.				f = 11.0mm		(11.2' ~	∞	)	(1.7' ~ 2')
•	Do not carry the camera or move it around while holding onto only					F8 (●)	1.7m ~	∞		44cm ~ 77cm
	the lens body.
							(5.6' ~∞		)	(1.4' ~ 2.5')
• Return the lens body to its normal position (with the lens pointing
	from the front of the camera) before storing the camera.				* See page 27 for information on changing the aperture.
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